Throughout history, there were people with a crazy amount of wealth they possessed and if we go by inflation, there were many people who were richer than today’s richest people. Here is the list of the five richest men that ever walked on earth.
Mansa Moussa
Mansa Moussa was an Emperor of the Malian Kingdom who lived from 1280 to 1337 and is considered to be the richest person ever in human history.
Mansa Moussa was the ninth king of the lineage of the Mali Empire and is assumed to be the richest person ever in history. The main source of his wealth was from Bambuk gold mines which account for 50 percent of the world's supply of gold today. During his visit to Mecca, he had around 60,000 people with him and each of them carried 2 kgs of gold and it does not stop here. He was travelling with around twelve camels and each camel carried 125 kgs of gold which he gave as charity to the poor people he met on the way.
Augustus Caesar (63 BC-AD 14)
Augustus Ceaser was a Roman Emperor who ruled the Roman Empire from 27 BC to 14 AD. He is considered a great emperor because under his leadership Rome prospered and increased its kingdom till Egypt.
Augustus Ceaser got the throne of the Roman Empire after the death of his father Julius Ceaser. The Roman Empire also included the modern-day country of Egypt hence making it one of the largest empires of that time period. He ruled over a Kingdom that accounted for around 25-30% of the world's GDP at the time and in addition he had a personal wealth that would be the equivalent of about $4.6 trillion today. He is one of the richest rulers of a kingdom ever and under his leadership Rome as a kingdom prospered a lot.
Akbar (1542-1605)
Akbar or Akbar the great as he is popularly known was a Mughal Emperor, He ruled over an area covering most of present-day India which consisted of 25% of the world’s GDP then.
During the reign of Akbar, India’s GDP per capita was equivalent to Elizabethan England, but there was a difference as in India the wealth is possessed mostly by the ruling class. That makes Indian emperors richer than their counterparts in Europe. Mughal Dynasty followed the mansabdar system according to which the state takes a certain amount of money from the public. It’s more or less like the tax we pay nowadays to the government.
